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Sunday, August 14, 2016

Home-fixed phone cover

When I got my smartphone a couple of years ago I didn't buy the very
pricey leather case on offer in the shop I bought it in, instead
choosing to go into a shop just down the road selling nothing but phone
cases and getting one there. I paid 9.90, which I think was about the
cheapest one there and, given that the one I had left behind in the
other shop cost closer to 40, I was happy enough with it.

Look closely and you can see the indents where the diamante
used to be

Even if it was covered in little diamante yokes.

It didn't take me long to pry them all off. It has since seen a lot of wear and tear and at the networking events I attended at the start of July, I actually felt very self-conscious about leaving it on the desk in front of me. I had already been thinking I should look for a new cover and that made my mind up.

I'm not terribly concerned with image but I know many people are and since I'm now also running my own business and using networking events like that to try and make new contacts and maybe get some new customers, I do feel like I need to make at least a small effort.

For whatever reason, I kept putting off and forgetting to look for a new
cover but next week I will be attending the summer school I have been
organising in my new day job and, even though academia is turning out to
be way more casual than my previous work life, I thought it was really
time to finally get something.

And then it occurred to me that since I'm broke, maybe I could try and
cobble together something at home first. If it didn't work out, I could just buy one anyway and if it did work out, I'd have saved a little bit. So I dragged some material out
of my stash (a patchwork material that I bought as a remnant years and
years ago) and found the craft glue that I bought to make a fancy album
for my sister's wedding. She has just celebrated her 10th anniversary but thankfully the glue still works.

A little bit of cutting and glueing and I just about managed to get something that might not be very office-professional looking but at least is a bit less ragged and dirty looking.

I even managed to cut a hole for the camera and flash

And I remembered to do the magnetic clasp bit

I didn't spend a huge amount of time on it, as I had ironing to do.
Finally managed to figure out how to put on the new cover I bought and
badly needed to iron some clothes to bring to the summer school. So
there is one tiny part wher I didn't quite manage to get the material
quite right but for the most part, it's fine. Nor is it all finished and pretty looking from the inside. But again, it's fine.

So, it may not be the sleek leather most professionals might go for, but
I think it's got a kind of cool, funky vibe that I'm not at all averse
to. And maybe one day I'll use the rest of that material to finally make
myself that skirt that I originally envisaged. This is enough for now.
And now I'm all inspired to make another one or two covers - if I used
some elastic I could perhaps make them similar to fitted bedsheets so I
could swap them out depending on my mood.

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About Me

Fortysomething living in Germany since 2008. When not struggling with depression I'm trying to get rid of the last of some stupidly incurred debt and move my way towards a more independent life. One in which I know how to do most things for myself and am not reliant on paying others/shops just to cover the basics of life.
Yes, I blog anonymously. No, I don't always reply to comments - not because I don't appreciate them, just because sometimes it's too much, sometimes I just have nothing to say, sometimes just because - please don't take it personally.